F r a n k f u r t B o o k F a i r 2 0 1 9R i g h t s L i s t

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03 | CLAUDIA CASANOVAHistoria de una flor - The Story of a Flower

05 | SILVIA COMAPionieras - Pioneers

07 | ILDEFONSO FALCONESEl Pintor de Almas – The Painter of the Souls

11 | ALAITZ LECEAGAEl bosque sabe tu nombre –The Forest Knows Your NameLas hijas de la tierra - The Daughters of the Earth

14 | SUSANA MARTÍN GIJÓNProgenie – Progeny

16 | CARLA MONTEROEl jardin de las mujeres Verelli - The Garden of the Verellis

18 | CARMEN MOLALa novia gitana – The Gypsy BrideLa red púrpura – The Purple Web

21 | CLARA PEÑALVERLas voces de Carol - Carol’s Voices

23 | REBECA TABALESSangre de mi sangre – Blood of My Blood

Authors

CLAUDIACASANOVAClaudia Casanova (Barcelona, 1974) is a graduate inEconomics and Translation. She began writing stories atthe age of 12 and wrote two novels before graduating.Her professional career began in the publishing sector,first as a manuscript reader and translator and later as aneditor. She is editor in Ático de los Libros PublishingHouse.She has published two historical novels: the first, La damay el león (Planeta, 2006) set in medieval France, has beentranslated into several languages. In 2009 she publishedLa tierra de Dios (Planeta) about Spain divided betweenthree cultures. She is a member of the AmericanHistorical Association and collaborates with other media,radio programmes and historical magazines. Her thirdnovel is La perla negra (Ediciones B) set in the 12thcentury’s Narbonne in the south of France.

https://claudiacasanova.net

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CLAUDIA CASANOVA

HISTORIA DE UNA FLOR / THE STORY OF A FLOWER

Based on the life of Blanca Catalán de Ocón, the first Spanish botanist, this is a touching love story of ayoung daughter of aristocratic family in Teruel, and Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, a well-known Germanbotanist, with the discovery of a new species of a flower in the 19th century Spain in the background.

It is the year 1879, Valle de Valcabriel, Teruel. Alba’s mother, Mercedes looks at the rugged mountains inAragón and recollects her native Girona and also her boarding school in Switzerland. A long time haspassed since she left Girona to marry Eduardo with whom she had two daughters. Both girls, Alba andLuisa, love nature and after long winters in Barcelona in their mother’s house they only dream of goingback to Teruel. Once there, Alba will spend hours wandering across the valley, delighted to add to hercollection of flowers and dreamy Luisa will write poems and chase butterflies. Mercedes firmly believes infreedom and education for women and, at her request, canon Bernardo Zapater will encourage the twogirls to follow their scientific interests. One day Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, a German botanist arrives in thetown. He is working on a book which will revolutionize botany and has been cataloguing flowers andspecies for years. Little by little Alba finds a soulmate in him and Willkomm falls head over heels in lovewith the resolute and intelligent Spanish girl but he is a married man and his world is Germany. In spite ofthe intense mutual attraction, they both know that they can only be bound together by the recollection ofone summer in Valcabriel. Alba, like the sweet-smelling flower they discovered together, decides to live thedaily life of changing seasons: there will come the winter of her melancholy, the fragrant and short spring,the summer, dry and cruel and the autumn, the prelude to the snow. But with the death of her mother andthe family’s financial ruin she must give up botany, her passion and get married as befits young girls of hertimes. On the day of her wedding, a letter and a locket arrive from Germany.

“An oasis of peace. Historia de una flor is so beautiful in its harmonious whole. It is a wonder how it is written. Withthe simplicity so similar to some flowers which do not need big leaves and bright colours to captivate you by theirbeauty and become your favourite. You are transported through its pages not even being aware of it, like lightning.Do not miss this marvel.”De lector a lector

“A novel which rescues from oblivion the figure of the Spanish botanist, Blanca Catalán de Ocón.”Librújula

Historical novelPublisher: PRH/Ediciones BDate of publication: Feb 2019Pages: 360Rights sold: Italy/FeltrinelliGermany/Eichborn

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SILVIA COMASilvia Coma (Barcelona, 1990) is a writer anda journalist. She collaborated with variousmass media; radio, television and printedpress. At present she combines writing withher job in marketing in Penguin RandomHouse publishing group. She has publishedher first novel, Aún está oscuro (La Esfera delos Libros) in 2018. Earlier, shepublished Voces de ahora (NotoriousEdiciones, 2013), a collection of interviewswith some of the most important figures inthe world of culture, and a short story Eltango de los domingos olvidados. She alsocontributed to the book Las mejores películasde nuestra vida, and took part in the radioprogramme Cowboys de medianoche.

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SILVIA COMA

PIONIERAS/ PIONEERS

A family saga of the Spanish emigrants in the heart of wild land where the law is written with blood.

Inspired by the migrations of her own ancestors, the author gives us a passionate saga of vengeance andambition in the Wild West, which since the mid-19th century until the beginnings of the 20th becomesdeeply rooted in the life of the Spanish immigrants and shapes the condition of being a woman in the mostrough and turbulent times and places where the law is written with blood. In the middle of the19th century, the Ferrer family emigrates to New Mexico in search of a better life. They settle in the LlanoEstacado, a frontier zone inhabited by the Spanish, Irish and Swedish immigrants, who like themselveshave crossed the ocean. María Ferrer begins working as a teacher in the school to help her parents getahead but her life changes dramatically when one night, bandits break into their house, kill her mother,brother and father and capture her sister Elena. Homeless and alone, with nobody to turn to for help, shewill set out on her quest to find her sister and the murderers of her family. Armed with courage and hope,María assumes a new identity: she learns to dress, behave and talk like a man and joins a group of trackerswho dedicate their time and effort rescuing captives from the hands of the Indian tribes. Dressed in man’sclothes, she will have to put up with the elements, to fight and kill and to infiltrate the man’s world neverrevealing who she really is.

With the settings of the Costa Brava, the arid land of New Mexico or the spectacular Rocky Mountains,writing in the detail-oriented, evocative and absorbing prose, the author takes the reader into the verybowels of a hostile territory and sheds a new light on the unknown part of the Spanish history.An important book for current times, coinciding with the rise of the feminist movements. The story of awoman who, finding herself in the world dominated by men decides to pass for one of them, bury her pastand disguise any feminine trait in order to survive.A story of vengeance, love and passion and a mystery that captures the readers’ attention from the veryfirst page.

Women’s Fiction/Family SagaPublisher: La Esfera de los LibrosDate of Publication: January 2020Pages: 350

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ILDEFONSOFALCONESIldefonso Falcones (Barcelona, 1959) is a lawyer andwriter. La Catedral del mar, his first novel, has become anunprecedented international bestseller, acclaimed byreaders and critics alike. Awarded with Euskadi de Plata2006 Award, Que Leer 2006 Award, Giovanni Bocaccio2007 Award, Città dello Strello 2008 Award, and Fulbertde Chartres 2009 Award. His successive novels are Lamano de Fatima, La reina descalza and the latest one, thesequel to La Catedral del mar entitled Los Herederos de latierra, that sold over 800,000 copies in Spain. His workshave been published in over 40 countries and sold over10,000,000 copies. A major TV series based on La Catedraldel mar has been produced in 2018 and is available onNetflix internationally.

www.ildefonsofalcones.com

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ILDEFONSO FALCONES

EL PINTOR DE ALMAS / THE PAINTER OF THE SOULS

At the dawn of the 20th century, Barcelona was beginning to change. While the modernism adorned its more affluent streets, the workers in poorer districts were fighting for their rights and for a more equitable society.

Dalmau Sala, a young painter, will find himself entangled between his passion for the art and his love for a beautiful and vivacious woman in this brilliant novel which recreates masterfully the exciting times, distinguished by social tension and anti-clericalism in a city capable of rebelling against the power of tradition.Barcelona, 1901. The city is living the days of great social unrest. The abject misery of the most disadvantaged contrasts with the elegant opulence of big avenues where there have already appeared remarkable buildings, the symbol of the arrival of modernism.Dalmau Sala, the son of an executed anarchist, lives between two worlds. On the one hand, his family and Emma, the woman he loves, are staunch defenders of the workers’ fight. On the other, being employed in the pottery workshop of don Manuel Bello, his mentor and a conservative middle-class defender of the catholic faith, he finds himself in the environment where the affluence and artistic innovations prevail.Tempted by the attractive offers of the middle classes willing to buy his paintings and his conscience, Dalmau will have to find his true path as a man and an artist, to get away from the nights of wine and drugs in order to recognize what is really important for him: his values, his soul, the love of a brave, combative woman and, above all, those paintings which spring up from his imagination and capture on a canvas the miserable souls moving aimlessly along the streets of a city inflamed by the germ of a rebellion.

In The Painter of the Souls, Ildefonso Falcones gives us a dramatic history of turbulent times along with a moving scenario in which love, passion for the art, fighting for the ideals and vengeance blend masterfully together to recreate a Barcelona, once dull and grey, now on its way towards a brilliant future, where colour and hope begin to flourish in its homes and streets.

Historical novelPublisher: GrijalboDate of Publication: August 2019Pages: 672 Rights sold: Italy/Longanesi, Portugal /PRHGE, Serbia/ Laguna, Denmark/Rosinante, The Netherlands/Luitngh-Sijthoff,Finland/Bazar

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La catedral del mar |Cathedral of the SeaHistorical novelPublisher: GrijalboDate of Publication: 2006Pages: 672 Published in 34 countries

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Los herederos de la tierra |Heirs to the LandHistorical novelPublisher: GrijalboDate of Publication: 2016Pages: 894 Published in 20 countries

La mano de Fátima |The Hand of FatimaHistorical novelPublisher: GrijalboDate of Publication: 2009Pages: 954 Published in 24 countries

La reina descalza |The Barefoot QueenHistorical novelPublisher: GrijalboDate of Publication: 2013Pages: 752 Published in 24 countries

ILDEFONSO FALCONES

It is the 14th century. The city ofBarcelona finds itself at the peak ofits prosperity. It has expandedtowards Ribera, a humble district offishermen, whose inhabitants decideto build, with the money of someand the effort of others, thegreatest Marian shrine ever known:Santa María del Mar.

Barcelona. 16th c. is the time of theconsiderable growth of the corruptfeudal nobility and of the racial andreligious intolerance. Arnau Estanyolreappears here as a patron of HugoLlor, a 12-year-old orphan.The youngboy abandons the district of Riberaand finds a job with Mahir, a Jew whowill teach him the secrets of the worldof wines.

In the opulent Cordoba of thesecond half of the 16th century, ayoung Moor, torn between twocultures and two loves, begins apassionate battle for religioustolerance and the rights of hispeople.

In the 18th century Spain, in thismoving story of friendship, passionand vengeance the voices of twowomen unite in an audacious songfor liberty.

ILDEFONSO FALCONES

LA CATEDRAL DEL MAR / CATHEDRAL OF THE SEA

The masterpiece of Ildefonso Falcones, the historical novel La Catedral del mar that waspublished in 47 countries and that sold over 6,000,000 copies was adapted recently for a TVseries by A3/Netflix and is now available also for the readers of comics.

The 14th century. The city of Barcelona finds itself in its moment of great prosperity. It hasspread towards the humble fishing district of la Ribera whose inhabitants decide to build thebiggest temple dedicated to the Virgin ever known: Santa Maria de la Mar. In the arms of hisfather, little Arnau Estanyol arrives in Barcelona in search of a new life as a free man. What fateawaits a humble servant that very soon will rub shoulders with the wealthy classes in the city?

ComicPublisher: PRHGE / Random Date of publication: Oct 2018Format: 170/210Pages: 192Text: Pilar AlonsoIllustrations: Tomeu PinyaRights sold: Italy/Salani

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ALAITZ LECEAGAAlaitz Leceaga (Bilbao, 1982) is the author of the bestselling debut novel Elbosque sabe tu nombre that sold over 100,000 copies in one year. Theaudiovisual rights to the novel have been immediately optioned by aSpanish producer Nostromo Pictures for a TV series. She is a greatenthusiast of mystery, thrillers and women’s fiction. Her new novel will bepublished in 2019.

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ALAITZ LECEAGA

LAS HIJAS DE LA TIERRA / THE DAUGHTERS OF THE LAND

After the spectacular success of her debut novel The Forest Knows Your Name, with over 100,000 copies and translation and audio-visual rights sold, Alaitz Leceaga returns with an excellent novel recounting the beginnings of the most important wineries of La Rioja at the end of the 19th century. In The Daughters of the Land the readers will again find powerful women, attractive settings, intriguing family mystery and expressive prose.

The year of 1889, La Rioja. There are some people who say that a curse hangs over the vineyards, infertile for years, on the property of Las Urracas. While for the big wineries in the region it is the beginning of their golden age, Gloria, a young daughter of the owner, languishes in the old family mansion foreseeing another autumn without harvest.Oppressed by a cruel aunt and with an absent father, Gloria will see how her life changes from one day to the next when she becomes the head of the family business. In that moment a long battle will begin with the wine producers and local bigwigs who cannot conceive that their rival could be a woman. And much less one who puts in doubt their old privileges.With the help of her sisters Gloria will fight for the recovery of the glory of her vineyards and at the same time she will get to the bottom of the secrets hidden in the closed rooms and infertile land in Las Urracas Estate.In the shadow of a curse, unafraid of anything and anybody, the female protagonists of this novel will struggle for the power which is their due.

Women’s fiction / Family SagaPublisher: PRHGE/ Ediciones BDate of Publication: September 2019Pages: 477

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ALAITZ LECEAGA

EL BOSQUE SABE TU NOMBRE / THE FOREST KNOWS YOUR NAME

A surprising debut, a different novel, magical, realistic, feminist, picaresque. For a long time there has notemerged a literary debut as refreshing as this first novel by Alaitz Leceaga. El bosque sabe tu nombre evenwith the elements typical of some trends in the Spanish narrative of recent years, departs essentiallyfrom any well-known path and takes the reader through innovative and suggestive tracks.

An enchanted place, a dream mansion, a cruel father, twin girls at variance with each other, a lineage ofmagnificent women fighting for survival, a family saga set in Basque Country in 1928.El bosque sabe tu nombre tells the family saga of the marquises of Zuolaga, owners of a grand mansion, theVilla Soledad, and of a profitable iron mine in a town in Basque Country region. Estrella is a daughter of theZuloagas: she is capricious, egoistic and has a strong character. She and her twin sister, Alma lead the lifeof the privileged in the family mansion amongst the parties, the balls, the luxury and also many familysecrets. But Estrella and Alma are not like other girls: they can see and talk with the ghosts in the mansionor know exactly when the first spring flower will bloom. Their relationship, however, is tainted with malice,rivalry, jealousy and dangerous power games and it deteriorates when the girls reach adolescence. After atragic incident and on the eve of the Civil War, Estrella abandons the family mansion and sets on a long tripthat will take her from a boarding school in England to the dry lands of California and the glamour of LosAngeles and on her return trip she will have a taste of lavish parties in the Madrid of a new regime. On herway, Estrella will have to do all she can to survive, to retain her land and the family business.

“The literary debut of the year.”El Correo

“An epic novel of powerful women, which aims at being an editorial phenomenon.”El Periodico

“For a very long time there has not been a writer like Alaitz Leceaga. Lose no time to find out how good she is.”El Mundo

“Remember her name, She is the writer of the moment.”Cosmopolitan

Women’s fiction / Family SagaPublisher: PRHGE/ Ediciones BDate of Publication: May 2018Pages: 577Rights sold: Italy/Garzanti, Germany/Heyne, Poland/Albatros, Portugal/ASAAudiovisual rights: NostromoPictures

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SUSANA MARTÍN GIJÓNSusana Martin Gijón is the author of the detective series Más que cuerpos, consisting of two trilogies. One is madeup of the novels Más que cuerpos (2013), Desde la eternidad (2014) and Vino y pólvora (2016) whereas the other oneincludes short novels of auto-fiction, Pensión Salamanca (2016), Destino Gijón (2016) and Expediente Medellín (2017),the winner of the Premio Cubelles Noir 2018 for the best novel published in Spanish. In 2015, Susana Martín Gijónpublished Náufragos, a finalist in several prestigious competitions like the Premio Literario Felipe Trigo or La Tramade Ediciones B. A writer and lecturer, she has participated in literary festivals and congresses, such as InternationalLiterary Congress Medellín Negro in Colombia, Feria del Libro de Manizales, Congreso de Novela y Cine Negro deSalamanca, Semana Negra de Gijón, Getafe Negro festival, Tenerife Noir, Fiesta del Libro y la Cultura deMedellín, Granada Noir and Cubelles Noir.

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SUSANA MARTÍN-GIJÓN

PROGENIE / PROGENY

A bold novel that gives no breathing space to the reader while delving into one of the major themes of our times: a reflection on motherhood, and with it, on family models and on still existing social demands imposed on women. A captivating thriller and a powerful way of telling a story that is much more than just the plot and the characters, but also the issue of artificial fertilization and genetic manipulation. Susana Martín Gijón offers a spectacular coup de theatre in the novel that will leave no-one indifferent.

Seville, in the grip of a heat wave. Whoever can, dashes for the beach. But not Camino Vargas, the unexpectedly-appointed and temporary head of the homicide group since the shooting that left inspector Arenas in a coma. And neither do the criminals. Someone has deliberately run over a woman and fled. This fact will become the focus of media attention when a disturbing piece of information is leaked out: the murderer left a pacifier in the mouth of the victim before escaping. All the clues point to the ex-partner, a psychological abuser who made her life impossible. The statistics are not good: there have already been fifty fatal attacks of gender-based violence this year. However, when the autopsy reveals that the victim was pregnant, things will no longer be so clear. And when other murders begin to happen following the same modus operandi, the entire city will be shaken to the core. This hard and rather awkward inspector will have to handle the toughest case of her career, helped by the few members of her team that remain in the city. In an exercise of literary maturity, the author reaches a perfect balance between the subject and a gripping and absorbing thriller what with the big unknown that generates high tension in the whole city: has Seville become a dangerous place for women? Who and why is committing such brutal murders?

ThrillerPublisher: PRHGE/AlfaguaraDate of publication: January 2019Pages: 350

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CARLAMONTEROCarla Montero was born in 1973 in Madrid where she liveswith her husband and four children. Bachelor in Law andBusiness Administration, she has extensive work experience intraining for companies and managers. The time she spends onwriting she shares with hobbies such as yoga, cooking andtraveling.Winner of the Círculo de Lectores Award, Una dama enjuego was her first novel, and sold more than 100,000copies. La tabla esmeralda, her second novel, sold over150,000 copies and rights to 6 countries. With La pieldorada and the latest novel El invierno en tu rostro shebecame an acclaimed bestselling writer in Spain and LatinAmerica. Carla Montero is currently working on her new novelthat will be published by Plaza&Janes (PRHGE) in 2019.Her novels are distinguished by the use of the historical framewith special attention to the first decades of the 20th century,well-knit plots and feminine protagonists.

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CARLA MONTERO

EL JARDIN DE LAS MUJERES VERELLI / THE GARDEN OF THE VERELLIS

A family of absent men and courageous women. A legacy which contains valuable lessons. Anopportunity to a new start. A voyage in search of the simplest way of living.

Gianna has been living with her grandmother in the back room of La Cucina dei Fiori, an Italian Deli inBarcelona. She knows nothing of her family’s past. But on the night when her grandmother dies, shefinds among her things the key to a windmill situated in a small village in the north of Italy and a diaryof her great grandmother, Anice, with missing pages. When her life seems to fall apart, Gianna findsin the history of her great grandmother the inspiration to start again and sets out for Italy in searchof her roots. Through this journey we get to know Anice, her almost magical relation with nature, thestory of her love disrupted by the outbreak of the Great War and mysterious reasons why she had toabandon everything. But at the same time, we accompany Gianna in the passage of personalrediscovery and in what really is important in life: love, friendship and a place to call home.

Women’s fiction / Family SagaPublisher: PRHGE/ Plaza&JanesDate of Publication: October 2019Pages: 350Rights sold: Germany/Blanvalet,Italy/Giunti, Poland/Rebis

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CARMEN MOLACarmen Mola. Who is Carmen Mola? The author who doesn’t want toreveal her identity but who already became an editorial phenomenonthat sold to seven countries before the publication in Spain. La noviagitana is her first novel. The second instalment with Inspector ElenaBlanco, La red purpura will be published in 2019. Audiovisual rightshave been optioned to Diagonal TV.

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CARMEN MOLA

LA NOVIA GITANA / THE GYPSY BRIDE

Inspector Elena Blanco has to raise every fold of the Gypsy Bride’s veil to get to the truth: who hatedSusana so much, who hated her sister and her father? While working on the case she will have to dealwith a dangerous murderer, a vengeance, the age-old religion and the revelation of some terrible factsabout herself.

“In Madrid there are not many murders committed”, deputy inspector Ángel Zárate’s old mentor in thepolice force used to say, “but when they happen, there is nothing the other cities can be envious of”,would add inspector Elena Blanco, the Head of the Analysis Brigade, a police department created forresolving the most complicated and most heinous crimes. Susana Macaya, a Gypsy girl, educated in a non-gypsy environment, disappears after her hen party. Nothing is known about her until two days later whenher body turns up in the run-down Quinta de Vista Alegre park with its abandoned gardens in the district ofCarabanchel. It might have been just another routine investigation, were it not for the fact that the victimwas brutally tortured and that her sister Lara, also about to be married, also a young and beautiful Gypsygirl was murdered in the same manner seven years before. Lara’s killer is serving a sentence in prison, sothere are only two possibilities: it is either a copycat murder or an innocent person has been imprisoned.This is why the Head of Operations, inspector Rentero decides to take the case from young Zárate and giveit to the experienced Elena Blanco. She is a peculiar character, a loner, a fan of grappa, of karaoke, of oldSoviet cars and of romantic encounters in underground parking bays. A very special police officer whokeeps working in the force because she must not forget that there is a case in her life she cannot close. Toinvestigate implies getting to know people, revealing their secrets, their lack of consistency, their life. Inthe case of Lara and Susana it will be necessary to delve into the life of the Gypsies who have renouncedtheir customs in order to integrate into the society as well as into the life of those who condemn suchattitudes and do not forgive. It will also require acknowledging petty displays of racism they face everyday…

“Spanish Elena Ferrante? With The Gypsy Bride Carmen Mola enters the panorama of the detective novel withtremendous impetus (…). The novel’s solid structure and the plot unfolding like a classic detective story at the sametime break with various conventional principles.”Juan Carlos Galindo, El Pais

“A great, amazing thriller… I didn’t stop reading until the last page.”Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, Babella

ThrillerPublisher: PRHGE/AlfaguaraDate of publication: May 2018Pages: 408Rights sold: France/Actes Sud, Norway/Gyldendal, Germany/Penguin Verlag, The Netherlands/Xander, Italy/Mondadori, Greece/Klidarithmos, Finland/LikeAudiovisual rights: Diagonal TV

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LA RED PÚRPURA / THE PURPLE WEB

The fight to finish off The Purple Web will push the Case Analysis Brigade to the limit and, in a way, it mayeven destroy the Brigade itself. A race during which Ángel Zárate will see Elena Blanco slowly breakingdown, tormented because her son can be part of that horror. But what would not a mother do to save herchild?

A small townhouse in a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Madrid. The last days of a hotsummer. Alberto Robles has to order his daughter to get out of the pool while his wife, Soledad, is trying toget her teenage son, Daniel, to come down from his room and help her set the table for dinner. It couldhave been a night like so many others. But tonight, everything will fall into pieces. Inspector Elena Blanco,in charge of the Case Analysis Brigade (BAC), bursts into the house of Los Robles. Convinced of what shedoes, she goes straight to Daniel's room, followed by the rest of the agents. On the computer screen ofthe teenager there is the confirmation of what they feared: the boy is watching a live snuff show in which agirl is tortured by two hooded men. The efforts of the agents to try to locate the place from which it comesare unsuccessful. Helpless, they can only witness how the torture continues until the death of the girlwhose name, in that moment, they are not even able to know. But she was not the first victim. How manyhave died at the hands of the Purple Web in similar shows? That is the conclusion reached by the Brigadeagents after investigating this sinister organization with which they came into contact for the first time inthe case of The Gypsy Bride. For months they have been collecting information about this group thattraffics in videos of extreme violence on Deep Web, the hidden side of the Net. And during all this time,Elena Blanco has not told anybody what she discovered: that her son, Lucas, who disappeared when hewas only a child, is perhaps a part of the Web. Perhaps he has become a monster. Could her son be one ofthe hooded men torturing that girl? Elena does not know if she will have the courage to face up to theanswer to this question. But, inevitably, the truth will be getting closer and closer to her. The video thatthey managed to intercept on Daniel's computer will serve the agents to gradually surround The PurpleWeb. However, the new discoveries will make them realize that this torture was only the tip of the iceberg.That the perversion of the human being is capable of reaching extremes they never imagined.

ThrillerPublisher: PRHGE/AlfaguaraDate of publication: April 2019Pages: 390Rights sold: France/Actes Sud

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CLARAPEÑALVERClara Peñalver (Granada, 1983) is a writer and creativeconsultant. She graduated in Biology at the University ofGranada, where she lives. She has created Habitación Sellada®,a method which integrates neuroscience and psychology withtraditional narrative techniques and whose aim is to helpwriters maximize their creative potential not only in theliterary sphere. For a time she was a TV presenter in the “LaMitad Invisible” cultural programme. She is the author of thenovels: Sangre (El Páramo, 2009; Debolsillo, 2013), Cómomatar a una ninfa (Debolsillo, 2013), El juego de loscementerios (Debolsillo, 2014), La fractura del reloj dearena (Debolsillo, 2016) and Las voces de Carol (Ediciones B,2018). She has also published collections of short stories andchildren’s books.

http://clarapenalver.com

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LAS VOCES DE CAROL / CAROL’S VOICES

A victim trapped in her own mind. A police inspector who oversteps all limits. A psychologicalthriller that breaks the rules of the genre by moving along the thin line which separates realityfrom madness.

The case of Abril Zondervan deeply affects public opinion: the internationally famous writer wasfound dead in her house in Málaga without any visible signs of violence. Who could have killed her, ifit can indeed be treated as murder?Inspector Carol Medina is put in charge of the investigation. She takes her job very seriously andsometimes departs from the established course of action. Those who know her well realize that thisobsessive commitment to work is an excuse for not doing anything about her chaotic private life.When she is not busy with her investigations or with the old motorcycle she has been trying to repairfor months, she recollects another death which moved her tremendously. Now the case of the deadwriter will open for her the door to the world of madness in which the inspector, without beingaware of it, will feel comfortable. When Carol discovers that Abril Zondervan, diagnosed withschizophrenia, was not treated for years, she decides to enter – through her last book - thefascinating mind of the victim in order to find out what led to her death. Through the voices sheheard, the writer learned to convert the complexity of her mind into first class literary material.In the city of Málaga which hides the dark side under its bright appearance, Carol will carry on theinvestigation full of obstacles, sudden twists and surprises in a thriller which totally engrosses thereader in the plot until the unexpected ending on the final pages.

“A fast-paced, exciting story.”La Vanguardia

“An addictive novel, you will not put it down until the very end.”Librería Picasso

“Watch out for Clara Peñalver: the writer who has come to stay.”Fernando Marías

Psychological thrillerPublisher: PRH/Ediciones BDate of publication: Oct 2018Pages: 450

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REBECA TABALESRebeca Tabales (Madrid, 1981), a novelist and a poet, holdsa degree in Psychology and is currently studyingneurolinguistics and forensic psychology. She won theXIIIth Ateneo Joven de Sevilla Competition with her firstnovel: Eres bella y brutal (Algaida, 2008). She was aresearcher for the TV Series, Seis hermanas, which she laterfictionalized under the title of Seis hermanas. Shepublished Los Años de inocencia (2015) and is the author ofCartas de la Madame inglesa (Click Ediciones, 2017). Sangrede mi sangre is her fourth novel and the first in the serieswith the profiler Rut Martín Blanca.

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SANGRE DE MI SANGRE / BLOOD OF MY BLOOD

Blood of My Blood centres around guilt, lies and crime and its characters, very well depicted, act on theborder between good and evil. A boy who has seen too much. A mother at the end of her tether. A forensicpsychologist with a heart.

Rut is an independent forensic psychologist. She thinks that at the age of 35 her job should bring her moremoney and more recognition. Her heart is divided between a desk-bound detective, a policeman with apatch on one eye and her daughter, a lippy addict to video games. Javier, a seven-year-old boy, has gonethrough more in life than any adult would bear. One day he begins acting like a mad dog. He has a secret totell but nobody listens to him. Alberta, his mother, has become a shadow of a seductive and rebelliouswoman she once was. She is rude, cynical and self-destructive. She has exhausted all help and has rejectedall charity. She also has a secret which she would prefer to forget. When Rut meets Javier and his enigmaticmother she will soon understand that there is something inconsistent in what they are telling her…

“Sangre demi sangre by Rebeca Tabales. The birth of a great novelist.”“Sangre de mi sangre is a thriller with elements of a detective story and a psychological horror. By showing the darkside of maternity, Rebeca Tabales offers the readers a very personal alternative to suspense.”En Edición Original

“In Sangre demi sangre Rebeca Tabales demonstrates her psychological knowledge and her writing skills and offers thereaders a story which is fascinating, compassionate and also rousing anger. Her prose is strong and brutal and at thesame time extremely enjoyable. The characters come to life in the heart-rending story while the still prevailing, unjustsystem of defence of the abused adds moral significance to the narrative. Undoubtedly, an engrossing psychologicalthriller with an unexpected and brilliant culmination.”Mayte Expósito , Negra y mortal

“Few years ago Rebeca Tabales’ Eres bella and brutal dazzled me. With Sangre de mi sangre I can only keep saying: followthis girl! Rebeca Tabales entered the genre twisting the cliché and doing something very personal. ”Carlos Zanón

Psychological ThrillerPublisher: PRH/Ediciones BPublication date: Feb 2019Pages: 380

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